07 December 2017 Lens on the Week UK AN IRISH KNOT: Forget when and what the DUP knew. Forget whether the choreography of Mrs May’s meeting with Mr Juncker was premature. The problem of the Irish border which currently bedevils the Brexit negotiations is a real one and the best way to disentangle the strands… Continue reading Issue 132 :2017 11 07:Lens on the week
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Issue 132: 2017 12 07: Time For Reform (John Watson)
07 December 2017 Time For Reform It isn’t just Brexit. By John Watson Which is the precedent? The US in 1775 or Britain in 1536? Will the current period go down in British history as the start of a trip towards independence from Europe, or as the beginning of a social revolution? Both of them,… Continue reading Issue 132: 2017 12 07: Time For Reform (John Watson)
Issue 131: 2017 11 30: Low Productivity (John Watson)
30 November 2017 Low Productivity A price paid for virtue? By John Watson For all the cautious common sense behind Mr Hammond’s measures, as he doled out a billion here and a billion there to serve as sticking plaster for the nation’s problems, they could only achieve so much in the face of the forecast… Continue reading Issue 131: 2017 11 30: Low Productivity (John Watson)
Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Ace Reporter (Chin Chin)
23 November 2017 Ace Reporter! Chin Chin turns to politics By Chin Chin Phew, the Shaw Sheet published my article last week. That is a big relief. Unfortunately though, my career as an investigative journalist has suffered a setback. You see a crucial part of the “Panorama method” is confrontation, hassling the victims so that… Continue reading Issue 130: 2017 11 23: Ace Reporter (Chin Chin)
Issue 130:2017 11 23:Letter (Anthony Silver)
23 November 2017 Letter from Mr Anthony Silver The EU divorce Dear Sir It is abundantly obvious that the EU does not want to have the precedent of a member state leaving, especially a G7 country that makes a net monetary contribution to the EU budget. Our vote to exit has therefore started what will… Continue reading Issue 130:2017 11 23:Letter (Anthony Silver)
Issue 129:2017 11 16:Lens on the Week
16 November 2017 A Lens on the Week UK BREXIT: There is gang warfare in the Cabinet. Foreign Secretary Johnson and Environment Secretary Gove have got over the animosity caused by Gove undermining Johnson’s leadership bid and now stand back-to-back in their shared concern that the Government is not putting sufficient energy into the… Continue reading Issue 129:2017 11 16:Lens on the Week
Issue 126: 2017 10 26: Could Brexit Save Twinning? (Lynda Goetz)
26 October 2017 Could Brexit Save Twinning? A new raison d’etre. By Lynda Goetz Portsall is a picturesque Brittany village. If the name means anything to you at all it may be because it was just off the coast here that the Amoco Cadiz went down in March 1978 spilling 220,000 tonnes of oil which… Continue reading Issue 126: 2017 10 26: Could Brexit Save Twinning? (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 125: 2017 10 19: Week in Brief: UK
19 October 2017 Week In Brief: UK NEWS Brexit THE EU POSITION: Currently the parties are at something of an impasse. On the one hand the UK Government is not willing (and indeed is politically unable) to improve on the offer made by Mrs May in Florence to fund our share of the current cycle of… Continue reading Issue 125: 2017 10 19: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 124: 2017 10 12: Week In Brief: UK
12 October 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit EU NEGOTIATIONS: The failure by the EU to react constructively to the proposals in Mrs May’s Florence speech has changed the emphasis of the government’s approach. Mrs May’s position is that the ball is now in the Brussels court and that we are not prepared to offer more money… Continue reading Issue 124: 2017 10 12: Week In Brief: UK
Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Week in Brief: UK
05 October 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit JOHNSON RETREATS FROM LIMB: Last week Boris Johnson continued his attempts at backseat driving, telling The Sun that the Government must raise the minimum wage and pay more to public sector workers. He was also said to have set further red lines for Brexit saying that the transitional… Continue reading Issue 123: 2017 10 05: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 122:2017 09 28;Kicking the can down the street (John Watson)
28 September 2017 Kicking The Can Down The Street What are the two years for? By John Watson Two years more? Just what will it achieve? That is the question which Mrs May will be asked about her proposal in Florence that there should be a two-year transitional period after Brexit in which nothing much… Continue reading Issue 122:2017 09 28;Kicking the can down the street (John Watson)
Issue 122: 2017 09 28: Week in Brief: UK
28 September 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit MAY IN FLORENCE: In a speech on Friday, the Prime Minister proposed a two-year transition period which would, in effect, put off much of Brexit until 2021. During that period Britain would no longer have any representation at EU level but would continue to participate in the… Continue reading Issue 122: 2017 09 28: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Week in Brief: UK
21 September 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT BOUNCER: Boris Johnson has preempted the Prime Minister’s speech in Florence next Friday by publishing an article in The Daily Telegraph setting out his own vision for Brexit. The article which has drawn criticism from Amber Rudd for back seat driving, earned a swift rebuke from… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Week in Brief: UK
